Infographics are especially useful when it comes to correlating information, with us having a visual representation of different data displays we are better adept to making meaningful assumptions of that data. Still it's important to never disregard the sources, those are what validate the pretty pics/infographics.

Forbes 3 Graphics To Explain The Present And Future Of Climate Change Forbes To help translate the IPCC's 30 chapter report released today, the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food (CCAFS) created three infographics.

The Educational Technology Development Stages for Kids Infographic walks you through the educational technology milestones for different development stages. (Ed Tech Development Stages for Kids Infographic #kinderchat #1stchat thoughts?

Technology in Education. Gaming is Good for You Infographic etr As we know, these days kids are interested in playing video games rather than outdoor games. Many parents worry about it and forcibly keep video games ...

Dr Pam Hill's insight:

Great infographic that explains how the much disliked instructional gaming trend has many positive attributes.

“You develop interesting visual ideas as you realize what's available,” Ericson said. 2. Sketch with data. Ericson said to make 500 charts and then pick the graphic that displays the education best. 3.

Dr Pam Hill's insight:

Thanks for giving us some ideas for sharing our stories via Infographics. I agree that the world would be boring if all data were bar graphs!

Showing data in a visual way isn't a new concept. Newspapers and magazines have been using graphics, graphs, and charts to help people understand information for decades. But in the past few years, the Internet has fully ...

Dr Pam Hill's insight:

This article shows us how to learn from the experts in Infographics while engaging learners. A must read for anyone designing curriculum or professional development.

Graphology--the study of handwriting--has long been considered a pseudoscience, in the same family as phrenology and astrology. But a new study claims that the way you write can indicate more than 5,000 personality traits.

This handwriting analysis adds research to what typeface and graphic designers know intuitively--how the aesthetics of letterforms express information. For example, letters with no slant indicate "logic and practicality," as seen in the straight-up-and-down logos of no-nonsense firms like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. The way graffiti writers play with lettering also reflects the study’s results--rounded letters indicate creativity and artistic talent, and spray-painted tags are rarely angular.

Wow! I wish I had known this when branding my penmanship and teaching handwriting. If students have this information, it is more likely that they will be intentional about the work they turn in for grading:)

Relying on others' research only gets you so far. (If you really want to make the case for an innovative idea, don't just gather data. Generate your own.

Dr Pam Hill's insight:

Fabulous article and I would extend the idea to classroom data collection, analysis, and presentation. True experimental learning occurs when you carefully design ways to use data to drive instruction.

Data is the raw material of the 21st century, the commodity at the base of a booming digital economy. Like oil and gold, people mine it, refine it, and combine it with other things. Data has become the most sought-after substance in the world.

Dr Pam Hill's insight:

Fabulous article that gives a clear history of data mining and explains the science of data visualization. Well worth a couple of minutes of reading!

Like infographics and data visualization? Visual.ly is the world's largest community of infographics and data visualization. Come explore, share, and create.

Dr Pam Hill's insight:

I'd like to post a plug for this website. It has been fabulous in promoting 21st century skills including reading non-fiction content, making comparisons, and demonstrating learning. Definitely worth a look!

New York Times (blog) Interpreting the Data: 10 Ways to Teach Math and More Using Infographics New York Times (blog) From stock prices and unemployment rates to trends in tuition and quality of life, the ability to understand and interpret...

Global Carbon Emissions Originally conceived as one of my Myth Buster information graphics for Newsweek's International Edition, a piece on global carbon emissions showing both national and per capita data has found a home in the April issue of the Atlantic Monthly.

The image of a footprint is composed of circles sized relative to the carbon emissions of each nation and color coded according to region. In the final version of this information graphic there will be a second footprint of per capita emissions by nations.

That will be a very different picture.

The leader in per capita emissions is Gibraltar followed by the Virgin Islands. The U.S. drops down to number twelve and China falls way down the list due to its large population.

It appears that countries that don't grow or produce much have the largest footprint because they have to import almost everything they need...

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